Addressing the theory crisis in psychology

2019/09/12 by Klaus Oberauer, Stephan Lewandowsky · 1 voice · 6 citations
Decision Sciences · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics #Functional Brain Connectivity Studies #Mental Health Research Topics

paper · pdf · doi:10.3758/s13423-019-01645-2

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Discussions

• There has been much talk about the Replication Crisis. But part of the problem is that we do not fully exploit theory--Klaus Oberauer and I just published our thoughts on this in PB&R: https://doi.org [bsky, 0 points, 1 comments]